Evicted I’m A Celeb’s Charlene White has been brunching with Matt Hancock’s lover Gina Coladangelo

EVICTED Charlene White has struck up an unlikely friendship with former Health Secretary Matt Hancock’s lover Gina Coladangelo.

The ITV newsreader, 42, has been brunching with Gina, 45, who flouted lockdown rules in her affair with the MP.

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Hancock resigned as Health Secretary and the pair ditched their partners to shack up together after The Sun exposed the affair[/caption]

Charlene was even pictured with her arm around her on Wednesday, days after saying she risked her journalistic impartiality by seeming “sympathetic” towards Mr Hancock.

A source said: “They’ve been laughing lots together and having a blast in Oz along with the others. There’s certainly no bad blood.”

Sharing a snap, Charlene said: “One of the best things about coming out first is getting to know everyone’s friends and family.”

At one point in the series, ITV’s Charlene – who grilled Hancock over his Covid record in camp – refused to sleep in the luxury RV with him.

After she became the first to be voted out last Saturday, Charlene insisted: “I didn’t want anyone to feel like I was being too sympathetic to Matt because that would jeopardise the job that I love and jeopardise my journalistic integrity.

“It would have shattered the impartiality I’ve consistently had the past 20 years.

“In my heart, I felt if I didn’t represent those people who are still grieving and still hurting, if I don’t think about them and ask the questions that I want to know regarding his reasoning for going in the jungle… then I’m not doing my job.”

Loose Women star Charlene, whose aunt died of Covid, added: “It went from me having a laugh to me constantly worrying about whether or not I could still do my job when I came out.”

The Sun exposed Hancock – who had the Tory whip removed for appearing on the show – for breaking his own draconian rules when caught on CCTV in a steamy clinch with Gina.

He resigned as Health Secretary and the pair ditched their partners to shack up together.

Charlene, Gina and other I’m A Celeb families including Jill Scott’s missus Shelly Unitt have frequently enjoyed morning coffees at Rhapsody cafe, near their five-star resort in Surfers Paradise, on the Gold Coast.